All the 113 passengers and crew who were on board the airbus that went down into the Black Sea near Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi have been killed, the Russian Ministry for Emergency Situations said on Wednesday.
The Airbus A-320 of the Armenian airline belonging to the air company Armavia had 113 people on board, including six children and eight crew, the ministry spokesman Viktor Beltsov was quoted by the Itar-Tass news agency as saying.
Twenty-five bodies of those killed were found after the crash, Beltsov said.
According to the list of passengers placed in the hall of the international airport Zvartnots of Yerevan, the capital city of Armenia, 28 Russian citizens were aboard the crashed jet.
Bad weather condition is considered as a main explanation of the crash, Beltsov said.
In addition, President Hu Jintao yesterday sent a condolence message to his Armenian counterpart Robert Kocharian expressing sympathy to the victims and their family members.
(Xinhua News Agency May 4, 2006)
